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Hace 4 días · On December 8, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation known as the “Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction.” In it, Lincoln introduced his first plan for Reconstruction — reintegrating the southern states back into the Union and reconstructing society to protect the rights of former slaves.
Hace 14 horas · As historian Eric Foner writes in his book "Reconstruction: America‘s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877": "The Compromise of 1877 marked a major turning point in American history. It brought an end to Reconstruction and ushered in a new era in which the federal government essentially abandoned African Americans to the mercies of the all-white ...
Hace 3 días · Essentially, Congress, controlled by a Republican majority, used its legislative powers and control over the federal purse strings in an attempt to impose answers to the “Big Questions of Reconstruction” listed above. The recalcitrance of white Southerners opened Republicans to extending full citizenship to the formerly enslaved.
Hace 2 días · Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877. New York: Harper & Row, 1988. King, Edward. Texas: 1874. Houston: Cordovan Press, 1974. Moneyhon, Carl. Edmund J. Davis of Texas: Civil War General, Republican Leader, Reconstruction Governor. Fort Worth: TCU Press, 2010. Moneyhon, Carl. "Edmund J. Davis: Unlikely Radical."
Hace 4 días · Eric Foner, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War (New York, 1970); Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877 (New York, 1988); Our Lincoln: new perspectives on Lincoln and his world, ed. Eric Foner (London, 2008).
Hace 14 horas · Reconstruction Era: 1865–1877 Gilded Age: 1877–1896 Progressive Era: 1896–1917: 1917–1945 World War I: 1917–1918 Roaring Twenties: 1918–1929 Great Depression: 1929–1941 World War II: 1941–1945: 1945–1964 Post-World War II Era: 1945–1964 Civil Rights Era: 1954–1968: 1964–1980
Hace 1 día · In December 1863, Lincoln issued his Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction, which dealt with the ways the rebel states could reconcile with the Union. Key provisions required that the states accept the Emancipation Proclamation and thus the freedom of their slaves, and accept the Confiscation Acts , as well as the Act banning ...
